Keeping a country's unified will alive across generations was certainly no simple matter. The Land of Fire was currently stable and improving, but the serious hidden danger of having no successor had yet to be resolved.
Tsunade had earned the trust of both interest groups, which was why the Land of Fire had been unified under her. However, before a firm tradition and established political ideology had taken shape, since the Land of Fire's shogunate and Konoha's military forces could be unified, they could naturally split apart again.
After Tsunade, everyone might work themselves ragged only to end up having wasted their efforts. Not only that, but the vested interests of the present might even face retribution by then.
Therefore, setting national interests aside, the question of who would inherit the Land of Fire and Konoha was also extremely important simply for preserving the interests of the current factions.
Although the Hokage's successor did not have to be chosen by bloodline, with greater importance placed on the "inheritance of will," the successor to the ruler of the Land of Fire would certainly be hereditary... Of course, the succession of the Hokage was actually a more concealed form of hereditary rule.
Tsunade could keep the situation balanced, and Hashirama Senju's bloodline carried great weight throughout the Land of Fire. Therefore, the next heirs of the Land of Fire and Konoha should preferably be Tsunade's descendants... No, not preferably, but necessarily. If they did not want to return to the former situation of the Land of Fire and Konoha existing separately, only Tsunade's descendants could balance both sides.
After such rule continued for one or two generations and this political system became widely accepted, the position of Hokage could no longer remain a low-level symbol. The ruler would become the Land of